9 The Paddocks, Gainford, Darlington, DL2 3GA

9 The Paddocks is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Gainford, Darlington, Darlington (DL2 3GA). It has a recorded floor area of 139 m² (around 1496 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (December 2020) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it C (October 2010); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump.

At 139 m² the property is well over the postcode median (106 m² across 6 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2003–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 0.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £394,000 is 23.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£214/sq ft) was about 27.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: February 2021 at £320,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2021.